Data Management for Clinical Research

Data Management for Clinical Research

Vanderbilt University

About this course: This course presents critical concepts and practical methods to support planning, collection, storage, and dissemination of data in clinical research.
Understanding and implementing solid data management principles is critical for any scientific domain. Regardless of your current (or anticipated) role in the research enterprise, a strong working knowledge and skill set in data management principles and practice will increase your productivity and improve your science. Our goal is to use these modules to help you learn and practice this skill set.
This course assumes very little current knowledge of technology other than how to operate a web browser. We will focus on practical lessons, short quizzes, and hands-on exercises as we explore together best practices for data management.

Discussion Prompt: How have you assembled a study data management plan?

Video: Logging in to REDCap

Video: Walkthrough: Creating a Project and Adding the First Variables

Video: Walkthrough: Adding Fields to the Baseline Form

Video: Walkthrough: Adding File Fields and Formatting

Graded: Quiz 3

WEEK 4

Practicing What We've Learned: Implementation

This week, we set up an Electronic Data Capture (EDC) instrument in REDCap for the Morphine vs. Marinol Study. We also review data processes that occur during the running of a study, including an overview of key data quality operations.

In this week, we cover activities to wrap up your study and share data and results, as well as two lectures on other electronic sources of data that can be used in research. In response to learner requests, we've also added several lectures on clinical data management in resource-limited settings, in collaboration with research colleagues from Indiana University. This is a long week of videos, but next week will be short on videos in exchange!

Each course is like an interactive textbook, featuring pre-recorded videos, quizzes and projects.

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Vanderbilt University, located in Nashville, Tenn., is a private research university and medical center offering a full-range of undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees.

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Rated 4.7 out of 5 of 313 ratings

GS

Learning a lot in a short time is motivating to go on. The leading professors did a very good job. Examples were choosen well and made it easier to understand. Thank you to Paul Harris and Stephany Dud

Excellent course.

TK

Just informative and wonderful lectures

HC

Great course, it helped me a lot with the work that i am currently doing.